The Bonny Lass
Written by Nik Hoffman
O bonny lass, I never knew, So deep behind my misty eye, Beyond my grasp and what me do? When fallen night has hearkened nigh. Or will you bat your lash at me? And so show it that I might see, You’ve hid your heart kept safe away, Keeping its beats to show today. Sing me a song that you once knew, And sneak its tune into my ear, O bonny lass a-tell your coo, O loose your lips and come me near. Brush your fingers across my palms, Share me your sweetness as an alms, My lass, christen them with your lip, For but a moment’s fleeting bliss. O bonny lass when first we met, I didn’t know it could be true, You’d spoken words that lovers get When souls have slept in morning’s dew. Bonny lass, didst ye speak aright? Would thy figure a-flee from light? If thy tongue speak unburdened truth, Then let thy graces, lass, be loosed. O bonny lass a-take me soon, To half slumbered awaking dreams, And let us dance in twilight’s moon, To step our steps on autumn’s leaves. In blackest night grant me your kiss, And I’ll live out your deepest wish, When we become one and the same, I’ll relent and give up this game. O bonny lass I’ve never known, The close comp’ny of your touch divine, My bonny lass, you’re in my bones, O shine your star and send your sign. Ah fare ye well o bonny lass, May all you’ve said a-come to pass, Ah fare ye well o bonny lass, I’ll be waiting for the bonny lass.